Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/03/15/mitigating-speculative-execution-side-channel-hardware-vulnerabilities/ [blogs.technet.microsoft.com]
2018-04-05 18:29
Speculative execution side channels, on the other hand, represented a fundamentally new hardware vulnerability class with no established process for determining their severity and their impact on existing software security models. To create this process, we and others in the industry needed to thoroughly research speculative execution side channels and establish a taxonomy and framework for reasoning about their effects and possible mitigations.